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Flying to Cyndi’s House

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Here’s another short one…

This is the second of several videos I’m releasing from a flight with a friend from the Wenatchee, WA, area to Twisp, WA and back. In this video, I fly from my house, where I’ve gone to pick up an iPad I use with Foreflight while flying, to my friend Cyndi’s house on Wenatchee Heights. Along the way, I bitch about losing the foamy thing on my microphone — I swear there’s a black hole in my helicopter — and point out the Huey base where my friend’s Stan’s bright red helicopter is parked. See if you can see Bigfoot at Cyndi’s house.

Look for subsequent videos in this series in upcoming weeks. My cameras didn’t all behave, but I got cockpit POV and Nosecam footage for most of the trip. If you haven’t subscribed yet, what are you waiting for?

Cherry Orchard Tour by Helicopter

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Another video from the FlyingMAir YouTube channel.

Hop on board with me for a quick tour of the cherry orchards I was responsible for drying this past season. This video continues where I left off with my tour of the Colockum Fire damage (https://youtu.be/HT4jT_CG0yU), on what might be my last scenic flight of the season. I start at Jumpoff Ridge and continue over Stemilt Hill, Wenatchee Heights, and Squilchuck Canyon. Then I take a detour past the east side of Saddle Rock before descending down over downtown Wenatchee. Finally, I head up Stemilt Creek past a few more orchards and from there into Malaga for landing.

I had two cameras rigged up for this video and I switch from cockpit cam to nose cam for most of this flight. Audio is from direct connection to the intercom so you can hear me narrate the flight and make radio calls. You can also hear helicopter engine/rotor sound and rushing wind from the nosecam camera enroute.

Huey Helicopter Brownout Landing

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A very short, sweet-sounding video from the Flying M Air YouTube channel.

Join me at the “Huey Camp” landing zone while one of the three Hueys on cherry drying contract lands at its base after a short maintenance flight, stirring up a ton of dust. Love helicopter sound? Turn the audio way up for this one!

And no, he wasn’t nearly as close to that fuel truck as he looks in the video.